Reflections on Outbreaks & Public Health Leadership

For Zoom information, please register by completing this form: tinyurl.com/outbreaks-and-phleadership SpeakerDr. Mary Travis Bassett, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights About the WebinarThe United States remains an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some six months in, the US has 20-25 percent of the world’s cases and deaths despite having under 5 percent of the global population. What has happened here? And could leadership, including public health leadership, have reduced the number of lives lost? I will reflect on my time as New York City’s health commissioner from 2014 to 2018—during which microbes played an unexpected and outsized role: for example, Ebola, Legionnaires, Zika—and discuss lessons learned for the “big one”: COVID-19.This webinar is open to the Harvard community and is part of a monthly series called “Racism and Health — Understanding &amp\; Addressing Its Multiple Mechanisms”, sponsored by the Department of Social &amp\; Behavioral Sciences.